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Sample of authors
Manchette, Jean-Patrick
Jean-Patrick Manchette was a French author credited for having revolutionised noir fiction in France. He was born in Marseille. In 1945, the family moved to Malakoff in the Paris area. In 1960, after finishing his upper-secondary education, he moved to Paris where he spent most of his life and where he read English at the Sorbonne.
Manchette joined the militant left during the Algerian War of...
Literary figures
Andy Blake
Gender: Male
The handsome, quiet antiques dealer Andrew “Andy” Blake is married to the adventurous, beautiful Arabella, or Arab. They are an ill-matched, but happy, couple. Arab is the driving force in a series of entertaining, almost farcical, books by the American author Richard Powell in which the couple fight Nazis and other criminals around the United States.